The Woovebox “secret sauce”

Conditional trigger / chord-follow / tempo-sync all the things!

In traditional DAWs and grooveboxes you typically have to explicitly specify a lot of things manually; exact notes/pitches, exact timings, exact triggering. On the Woovebox these aspects are - preferably - algorithmically inferred. This means that, wherever possible, your Woovebox tries to make musical sense of the fewer pieces of data.

The result, as you likely have already found, is something called emergent complexity; simple rules interact to form a complex system that exhibits complex behaviour. It allows just a few, simple, well-considered patterns to sound complex, refined, polished and intentional, particularly once combined in your final song. All while taking much less time to put together and polish. Working any other way would be unnecessarily laborious and would get frustrating quickly on a device with just 16 buttons and a single encoder.

Using Randomisation

The Woovebox is uniquely suited to random generation, because everything interacts and adapts to everything else to “make musical sense”. So if you, like many, suffer from “blank project paralysis”, use randomisation to get you started; whether it’s chords, arpeggios, basslines, patches. At worst you won’t like the result and roll the dice again. At best you find gold. But most likely you will quickly find a potential diamond in the rough - something that you can shape into something you do like and can make your own.